1eccl.femaleliturgicalchurching, spiritual purification occurring 40 days after childbirth:
(
1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1
)
La royne Margarete [...] delyver est sauvement De un fiz [...]. Ly rays E. [...] se atire vistement Aprocher a la dame. [...] Aprés sa purifye fet sollempnement
400.1869
♦eccl.timeliturgicalFebruary 2nd, Candlemas, Feast of the Purification of B.V.M.:
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1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1
)
Le mecredye al vespre avaunt la Purifye La seynte mere Deu, gloriouse Marie
379.1364